Jean Craighead George

Jean Carolyn Craighead George
Craighead George in Barrow, Alaska, 1994
Born(1919-07-02)July 2, 1919[1]
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedMay 15, 2012(2012-05-15) (aged 92)[2]
Valhalla, New York, U.S.
OccupationWriter
AwardsNewbery Medal
1973

Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain.[1] Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, Journey Inward.

For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer she was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1964.[3]

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